chain mail

See also: chainmail

English

Mail

From mail.

chain mail (uncountable)

A flexible defensive armor, made of a mesh of interlinked metal rings.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
  Chain mail is formed by a number of iron rings, each ring having four others inserted into it, the whole exhibiting a kind of net work, with circular meshes, every ring separately rivetted; this kind of mail answers to that worn on the ancient breast plates, whence they were denominated loricæ hammatæ, from the rings being hooked together.

a flexible defensive armor

Albanian: zhguall (sq)
Armenian: օղազրահ (hy) (ōłazrah)
Bashkir: тимер күлдәк (timer küldäk), һайман (hayman)
Burmese: သံချပ် (my) (samhkyap)
Catalan: cota de malla f, cota de malles f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鎖子甲／锁子甲 (zh) (suǒzijiǎ)
Czech: kroužkové brnění n, kroužková zbroj f
Danish: ringbrynje c
Dutch: maliënkolder (nl) m
Finnish: silmukkapanssari, rengashaarniska
French: cotte de mailles (fr) f
Galician: cota (gl) f
Georgian: თორი (tori)
German: Kettenrüstung f, Kettenpanzer (de) m
Greek: αλυσιδωτή πανοπλία f (alysidotí panoplía)
Hungarian: páncéling (hu)
Italian: cotta di maglia (it) f
Japanese: 鎖帷子 (くさりかたびら, kusarikatabira)
Korean: 쇄자갑 (swaejagap)
Latin: donec posuere n, armorum n
Macedonian: вери́жница f (verížnica), панцирна кошула f (pancirna košula)
Norwegian: ringbrynje c
Old English: hlenċa m
Persian: زره‎ (fa) (zereh)
Polish: kolczuga (pl) f
Portuguese: cota de malha (pt)
Russian: кольчу́га (ru) f (kolʹčúga)
Serbo-Croatian: lančana košulja f
Cyrillic: верижњача f
Roman: verižnjača (sh) f
Spanish: cota de malla f
Swedish: ringbrynja c
Turkish: örme zincir
Ukrainian: кольчу́га f (kolʹčúha)

From mail.

chain mail (countable and uncountable, plural chain mails)

chain letters collectively